Project Gutenberg 2025-03-27 Public domain in the USA. 168 Marryat, Florence 1837 1899 Lean, Florence Marryat Church Lean, Mrs. Francis Church, Mrs. Ross Church, Ross, Mrs. Driven to bay, Vol. 1 (of 3) $aLondon :$bF. V. White & Co., $c1887. Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Driven to Bay, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by Florence Marryat is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story centers around Vernon "Jack" Blythe, a young sailor, and weaves together threads of love, ambition, and the challenges of personal honor. The narrative introduces various characters whose lives intersect en route to new beginnings, particularly through the vessel Pandora and a voyage to New Zealand, touching on themes of romance, betrayal, and social mobility. The opening of the novel introduces Jack Blythe, a good-natured and spirited sailor living with his widowed mother in Southsea, who is seeking employment as a ship's officer and is romantically attached to Alice Leyton. Jack’s relationship with his mother is close, though complicated by her skepticism about his engagement to Alice and hints of a previous heartbreak. The narrative then shifts to the troubled marriage of Godfrey Harland, a man burdened by vice and misfortune, who is plotting to desert his wife Iris by joining the wealthy Vansittart family on a voyage to New Zealand and starting a new life under a false identity. Iris, upon uncovering her husband’s intentions, steels herself to confront or follow him, highlighting her desperate situation and resolve. Alongside these personal dramas, the story surveys the wealthy but socially awkward Vansittarts and sets in motion the convergence of these characters aboard the Pandora, establishing stakes of love, escape, and the search for belonging. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/driventobaynovel01lean 20210601193914marryat 1887 gb Reading ease score: 80.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Sea stories English fiction -- 19th century Ships -- Fiction PR Text Category: Romance Category: Novels Category: British Literature 266836 2025-06-30T04:49:03.261790 text/html 240505 2025-03-26T23:58:32 text/html 905013 2025-06-30T04:49:09.013750 application/epub+zip 902186 2025-06-30T04:49:04.722756 application/epub+zip 352389 2025-06-30T04:49:03.902784 application/epub+zip 1813243 2025-06-30T04:49:12.091720 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1481262 2025-06-30T04:49:08.234778 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228830 2025-06-30T04:49:02.640789 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 208910 2025-03-26T23:58:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16435 2025-06-30T04:49:12.222719 application/rdf+xml 21481 2025-06-30T04:49:04.125777 image/jpeg 2980 2025-06-30T04:49:04.013786 image/jpeg 1896000 2025-06-30T04:49:03.343774 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia